financial market

This study investigated factors affecting housing finance supply in Nigeria. Housing finance is a major factor determining the quality and tenure of housing consumption, the overall financial portfolio of the public and the stability and effectiveness of the financial system. In…

The global economic crisis: implications for ASEAN

by ASEAN Roundtable:, Singapore), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

fromReport (ASEAN Studies Centre)

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Comprises papers presented at the ASEAN Roundtable of 18 June 2009. Covers issues of social, strategic and political implications, the economy and finance.

The phenomenon of crony capitalism is often described as the major cause of the Asian economic collapse in 1997. The main objective of this study is to address this phenomenon empirically through the structure of Malaysian political economy and tests the hypothesis that crony fi…

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the volatility in the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE). Three questions are investigated: Is the volatility in the KSE significant? What are the factors causing the volatility in the KSE? and Is the KSE efficient? To answer the first quest…

Financial speculation and global capital flows are topics that are frequently critically discussed in sociology but rarely studied in detail. As a result, we make assumptions of how financial investors behave. How do professional investors speculate on their national stock marke…